Tracks and Traces: Thailand and the Work of Andrew Turton (ICAS Publications Series)

GO Tracks and Traces: Thailand and the Work of Andrew Turton (ICAS Publications Series)


Author: Nicholas Tapp, Philip Hirsch
Type: eBook
Language: English
Released: 2011
Publisher: No
Page Count: 159
Format: pdf
ISBN-10: 9089642498
ISBN-13: 9789089642493
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Review "This text is a 'must-read' for those interested in religion in America, black studies, Islam in America, and the Nation of Islam."--The Journal of Religion "A 'must-read' for those interested in religion in America, black studies, Islam in America, and the Nation of Islam." В— Journal of American History "A fresh, new perspective on the Nation of Islam (NOI) by adopting a religious-studies approach that focuses specfically on religious ritual, ethics, doctrine, and narrative. . . . An important book and it should become a standard text on this small but hotly debated religious movement." В— Michigan Historical Review From the Inside Flap Elijah Muhammad's Nation of Islam came to America's attention in the 1960s and 1970s as a radical separatist African American social and political group. But the movement was also a religious one. Curtis offers the first comprehensive examination of the Nation of Islam's rituals, ethics, theologies, and religious narratives, showing how the movement combined elements of Afro-Eurasian Islamic traditions with African American traditions to create a new form of Islamic faith. Curtis's analysis pushes beyond essentialist ideas about what it means to be Muslim and promotes a view of the importance of local processes in identity formation and appropriations of Islamic traditions.